While 'curation' has become the new buzzword, the difference in meaning between this term, and 'content management', digital writing, blogs and even digital libraries is less and less clear. I hate the way our understanding of things is clouded by the technology industry, and does not consider the opinions or work of information professionals.

Good info. Thanks for the share Robin Good. David Kelly has put together and published a great set of content curation articles that he has personally selected for his upcoming ASTD-TK conference session entitled: Curation: Beyond the Buzzword.

In the dawning of the digital age, "She was the unlucky one to be having a nervous breakdown in public at the time," Amy director Asif Kapadia tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross.

Linda Alexander's insight:

An interview with Terry Gross (my favorite) regarding the life & times of Amy Winehouse re: the upcoming documentary film. The song, Rehab, made her famous, but was also a cry for help. Her father didn't think she needed to go to rehab...so she didn't go...because, as the song says, "her daddy thinks she's fine." )

Since 2007 photographer Matthias Schaller has photographed raw, abstract paintings. The paintings however are not found on canvas, but rather smeared onto the tools used to craft each work of art—the palettes. His series, Das Meisterstück (The Masterpiece), claims

Working along a single stretch of coastline in Sian Ka’an, Mexico’s largest federally-protected reserve, artist Alejandro Duran collects countless bits of trash that washes up from locations around the world. So far he's discovered plastic debris from dozens of countries on this shore of

Little white lies are harmless, right? They've been used in the name of good parenting forever (at least we think so). Here are some things we frequently said to our kids when they were growing up -- and what we actually meant. And a H/T to Huff/Pos...

There are many miraculous photos from history that have managed to go relatively unseen. For whatever reason, their quality is under-appreciated, despite revealing interesting realities about world history and popular events. Some may surprise you, but all will enlighten you. High profile figures

I'm sort of breaking my promise here. No news. Why no news? Because the news you read is almost always by uninformed reporters and is totally irrelevant in 99.999% of the cases.Example: Greece has not paid a single debt since Rome took over in 146 BC. And yet, everyone keeps asking me about Greece.News flash: They will borrow more money, and AGAIN they will not pay their debts. Nor should they.Greece is a subsidized beach resort, healthy food, etc but they aren't a real country - (sorry in advance to anyone offended by this) and then in three years, for less than the cash Google has in the ba

Linda Alexander's insight:

Brilliant and entertaining piece! I wonder if his assessment is correct?

One of the most influential American poets of all time and the father of free verse, Walt Whitman would have been 196 today. His seminal work Leaves of Grass is the ultimate celebration of life,

Linda Alexander's insight:

This quote is missing from the list...

“This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.” ― Walt Whitman

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